Machine for coring and slicing fruit.



No. 849,233. PATENTED APR. 2, 1907. P. HANSEN & G. W. POOTB.

MACHINE FOR 00mm AND S'LIGING FRUIT.

APPLIUATION FILED OGT. 30. 1905.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

ATTORNEYS No 849,233. PATENTED APR.2, 190'7. P. HANSEN & G. W. FOOTE.

MACHINE FOR OORING AND SLIGING FRUIT.

APPLICATION FILED OOT.30.1905.

2 SHEETS-$115111 2.

feierjiansew 'fealyemaie ATTORNEYS Specification of Letters Patent. 1

shpplicatlon filed October 80. 1905. Serial No. 286,055.

' PETER nANsEN, or JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, AND

NEW YORK, N. Y.

MACHENE FQR CURING sEos-eE w. more, or

AND sucme FRUIT.

.r ate nted A ril 2, 1907.

agl whb t-it may'cohoem- -j 1 l3e it'known that "we; PETER HANSEN; a

. resident of Jersey the county of Hudson and State of -Ne ersey;

1 -1 f Mammy-a and Gnonen W.

New,York, the-county and Statei'of: New York, 'citiiens;-of the UnitedFoorn a resident :of the States, have invented "a new and ImprovedMachine -'for Goring and Slicing Fruit, of which the following is afull', clear-,; and exact description.

a simp ,durable, and economic iili'ejfor simultaneouslycoring andslicingapplesin such manner-that the coring and slicing will be cleanly andrapidly accomplished and so hap tothe'fruit and-s0 that but one attends.

that the slices will be pf uniform thickness.

h erpurposm'of the invention is,to provide a machine'inwhichthe various0 eration s wilhbe Automatically accomplis ed and soitimed-that there isno danger-of mis ant, afeedenis required for the machine.

.Theinvention-consists in the, novel construction and combination oftheseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth,

and pointed out inthe claimsy" Reference is to be had the accompany.

ing drawings, forming .a of this specifics;

tion, in whicksirtrilarcharactensni reference indicatecorrespondingf)artsiii alhthe figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevationof the machine. Fig: 2 is a horizontalsection taken practi cally on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. ,Fig. 3 is avertical section' taken practically on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 isa vertical section taken practically on the line'.4 4 of Fig. 1. a Fig.5

l is a detail edge view of-the can1 for operating practically on theline7 7 .8-i s a bottom plan view of the-cutter.

The frame of the machine is preferabb constructed as shown in Figs 1,wherein it I -aqmprises a table 10,"usually supported by11,:anda'standa'rd-section 12, secured to onmtegral with 'the'ltableytog'ethel with 9.

- Horizontal head-sect on- 13, extending from one side'oftheistandard-section and provided with a downwardly-extending hanger 14'and The Ipurpose of theirr entiozi 'iito ovlde either 1pulley being adathe other pulley left-handend portion of of th I an arm 15, whichextends from the standardsection opposite the head-section. A post 16,circular in cross-segtion, is located at the u per end portion of thestandard-section 12 a? the frame and may be secured in a'socket 17,produced in saidfstandard-section, or the said post '16 may be anintegral-portion of the arms.

The drive-shaft 18 is mounted to turn in an upright hanger 19, securedto the table 10, and in a bearing 20, produced in the standardseotion 12of the frame, and the said driveshaft 18 extends beyond both sides ofsaid standard-section, as is illustrated in Fig. 1.

Two pulleys-21 and 22 are located on the longer end portion of thedriveshaft 18,

ted to receive a drivthe said. pulleys is a being fast on the shaft, and

is a loose pulley.

In connection with the pulleys just described a shifting mechanism A isemployed. (Shown best in Fig. 2.) This shifting mech anism' consistsoftwo parallel bars,- bar 24and an outer bar 25, the outer bar exing-be23, and one o driving-pulley,

an inner ner bar and the inner bar the left-hand end of the outer bar,an

secured in an suitable or approved manner,

said Fig. 2. The inner bar 24 is mounted to extending beyond '80 the vthe outer' bar 25 isto the inner ar 24, as shown at 26 in the 5 slide inposts 27 and 28, which are secured tothe table 10. and extend outwardand up ward therefrom, as is best shown in Fig; 6, and

the said inner bar 24 is limited in its moveinent by suitable sto s handend ofthe outer v and 29 are secured, which fingers are curved indirection of the'pulleys 21 and 22, and the 29. Atthe right-- ar 25 twofingers 29" space between the said fingers 29* and 29 is sufficient, toloosely receive the driving-belt. 23. Infect, the fingers 29 and '29guides for the belt, and by moving the bars other-of the pulleys 21and'22, according whether it is intended to start or to stop themachine,

Tlieputter Bis shown in and in sidee ovation in Fig. 1 This cutterconsists of "a circular body- 30, having a Iowa: 10

tapering or conicalsection 30 and in the ex- M e shifting mechanismbackward or for- W 'ward'the belt 23 is c'an'ied from one to the to IOOsection i p ge 1;.1

terior of the said tapering section 30 and in the adjacent portion ofthe main circular section of the body vertical slots are produced atregular intervals apart, and said. slots may be placed as close togetheras may be desired. Blades 31, adapted to serve as slicing-blades, areintroduced into said slots, and the order longitudinal edges of theblades 31 are straight and likewise their bottom edges, and the saidblades extend a predetermined distance beyond the bottom portion of theconical section 30 of the said body 3, as is shown in both Figs. 1 and'7, and when the blades 31 are in place in the said bod their outerlongitudinal edges are substantially fiush or in vertical alinement withthe outer face of the upper main circular section of the said body 30,as is clearly shown in Fig. 7

The blades are held in place in any suitable or approved manner-as, forexample, through the medium of a clamping-ring 33 passed over the uppercircular body. portion of the cutter to a point where the conicalsection com1nencesand the said body portion 36 of the cutter B isprovided with an upwardly-extending centrallylocated shank 32. Thisshank 32 is provided with a downwardly-tapering bore 34, which boreiscontinued in its tapering form throughout the body 30 to the lower endthereof, and in that portion of the bore 34 which. passes through theconical section 30 of the body 30 a tapering tubular steel cutter 35 issecured in such manner that its inner wall is flush with the inner wallof that portion of the bore in the shank 32 and adjacent portion of thebody, so that the cutter 35, which is a corecutter, constitutespractically a continua tion of the bore 34 in said shank The tubular orcore cutter extends a suflicient distance bi vond the lower end of theconical section 30 of the body 30 of the cutter to be flush at its owerend with the lower edges of the slicin g-piates 31.

A Citl'llcl B is adapted to receive the cutter B, the cutter beingremovably connected with the c .ier. As is shown in Fig. 1, this carrierconsis A of a sleeve 36, which is mounted to slide on the post 16,extending up from the frame of the machine, and is held from turning onsaid post by means of a feather on the post, for example, entering agroove in the sleeve 36. The sleeve 36 at its left-hand side is providedwith cheek pieQ-es 37 which are downwardly-inclined, and thesecheckpieces 37 are integral with a band or ring 38, which is alsointegral with the bottom portion. of the sleeve 36. The tapering bore 34enables the cores to free themselve as they pass upward, and thereforeprevents them -from c inging in the cutter, and. in order that the coresmay be directed to any desired place away from the machine usually acon-- 'liorizontal member 13 of the frame.

access 1 K s 5 1 I 1 a I. (lUCU.hg-Sr1l8l(l. 10 of any approved form isflirtached to the cheelopiecos 37 and 18 located.

over the upper end of the cutter B. The

said cutter is removably held in said carrier by passing bolts 41through ears 39, formed on the ring 38, and into the shank-section 32 ofthe cutter. i/Vhen the cutter is in position in the carrier B, the upperedge of its body portion 30 (its snugly against the under face of thering or band 38, as is illustrated in Fig. .l.

The carrier B is raised and lowered in the following manner: A link 42is forked at its forward end, and the said forked portion of the link isslotted to receive between its mom'- bers the lower end bf thecarrier-sleeve 36, as is illustrated in Fig, 1, and pivot-pins 43 arepassed through the slots in the forked porlions of the link and into thesaid sleeve. The outer or rear end'of the link 42 is pivotallyattached-to the. upper end of the upwardly-curved arm 15 of the frame,as is illustrated at 4A in Fig. 1.. A connecting-rod 45 is pivotallyconnected with the link 42, and this rod 45 is carried downward indirection of the main or drive shaft 18, and said rod 45 is pivotallyattached to the upper portion of an elongated head 47 of an arm 46,pivoted to one of the upright bracket-arms 27, is best shown in Fig. 6,and the said head 47 at its lower portion carries a frictionrollcr 48,which friction-roller is made to travel in an oval race 49, produced inone side of an oval cam which cam is'securcd to the drive-shaft l8, isshown in Figs. 1 and 6. 'lhus in operation as the drive-shaft 18 isrevolved when the point of the cam receives a friction-roller 48 thecarrier B and consequen tly the cutter B are carried upward, and whenthe roller 48 reaches the butt or wider end portion of said cam thecutter and its carrier are brought downward, so that the cutter may beoperated to slice and core the fruit' A line-shaft 49 is journalcd atone end in suitable hearings in the standard-section 12 of the frameabove the drive-shaft and extends beyond the inner end of said drive--shaft, and said shaft 49 is also journaled in a hanger 14, forming aportion. of theupper This shaft 49 at what may he termed its outer orforward end is provided with an attached bcvclgear 50, which mcsl'ieswith a similar gear 51 secured to the lower end of a shaft 52, the saidshaft being mounted to turn in a suitable bearing 52-, formed at theouter end of the upper horizontal section. of the frame, as is also bestshown in Fig. 1.

A table l is attached to the upper end of the shaft'fi l, and the saidtable is of spider construction, comprising a series of arms 53, whichradiate from a common luib, and platforms'54 at the outer ends of thesaid arms, the said 'ilatforms being usually of circular shape. Thetable D, which is adapted'to be periodically rotated, may be providedwith any desired number of arms 53; but usually.

six of said arms are employed in its construc-. tion. Each platform 54of the table is provided with an upwardly-extending spike 55. The tableis so located that as it is turned any one of the platforms 54 may bebrought ;be.-.

neath the cutter B, and when a platform-is-inj; P p registry With thecutter the spike 55 of that platform will be in alinementwiththe centralportion of the cutter.

The table D is periodically- 'revolved through the medium of 'astar-wheel E and a co acting elliptical cam E. (Shownbest in Fig. 4.)The star-Wheel E is secured to the upper. or line shafte and its teeth56 correspond in number to. the number of arms 53 of the table 1), andthe up er or peripheral:

edges of the teeth 56 of t e'st ai-wheel are concaved. The ellipticalcam E is. secured just below the star-wheel E upon the drive or mainshaft 18, and in the construction of this cam E its pointed sectionis-thirmer thanthe larger or butt section, and the division is marked bya concaved shoulder 59, which is located betweenthe hub 'of the cam andits point, which shoulder occurs only at one sideof the cain, and at thesaid point of the cam E a friction-roller 59 is mounted to turn,'beingopposite the shoulder 59. In

the operation of the drive-shaft '18 the fric tion-roller 59* will-entera space between opposing teeth 56 of the st'ar wheel E- and turn thesaid wheel the distance of one tooth, and by so doing the shaft 49 isrevolved a sul'licient distance to cause the table D to move far enoughto carry one platform from beneath the cutter and lace another in itsstead. The concaved s oulder 59 is provided in order that the edge ofthe teeth 56 ofthe star-wheel E may not interfere with the action of thecam when the cam is to act upon thellwheel, and the concaved outer edgesof the teeth 56 are provided in order that the body of the cam at itsperiphery may fit to the tooth beneath which it revolves when the cam isnot acting upon the wheel, The cams C and E are so placed that they willhave timed movement relative to each other. Thus when the cam C isacting to carry the cutter B to ,its upper position the point of the camE willact uponthe star-' wheel E to,turn tlz .srrme and consequentlyturn the table 1) to-eifect a change of platforms, and the said cam Eremains inactive during the time that the cutter is carried down. toengage with the fruit placed onth'ej platform beneath itand'co're andslice the;

same

It 18 very necessary that the'wheel-D shall be locked justpribr andduring the time that the cuttenis acting upon the fruit, and this isaccompl shed by; the mechanism shown .in

Figs. 1 and 3'. I This locking device consists of an elongated block 60,having an'elongated slot 61 therein, through-which the shaft 49 be aboutb iitrally beneath the cutter B. The saidblocik-is provided-with anupwardly- .ing' '63, produced in.-the 1 181 I member 13 'of' the frame.d e'upper-e'nd of the stem 62 is adapted to enter a recess 55- in'thebottom of a latform'54, as each plat-. formof the table l is providedwith such a recess; (Shown articularly in Fig. 3.); A spring 6 is coile1 around the stem 62','having' enga ement with the locking-block 60, "it

stem will enter the race in the platform above passes by the saidlocking-block the said block will fall to the peripheral portion of thebody-of the cam and the locking device .will be instantly carried out oflocking engagement with the table.

' The cam F acts to raise the locking-block just at that moment afterthe cam E and the star-wheel E have placed a platform beneath the cutterB; and the release of the platform is eflected by causing the rise 65 ofwith the star-wheel to turn the wheel D the distance of another arm. Thecarrier B is assisted in its upward or return movement by attaching a sring 68 to the upper end of the sle've 36 an to a horizontal arm 69,secured to the upper end of the post 16, the ated through the medium ofan eyebolt 70 and a nut 71. j

In operation the fruit is first pared by hand or by-machine and isplaced upon the spikes f 55 on the platforms of the tables D, and all ofthe' latforms can be readily su plied by a been set in motion; thevarious operative parts ofthe machine operate automatically bearingagainst the frame member. 13: and against the'block- 60, the springhavmga tendency to forcethe block andflitsstem sing e attendant. Thedrive-she 18 having loosely passes so,---that''the..block';can'havevertical movement on the 'sliaft,yandth is v block, is placed in suchposition that'it will exam-1m attachedprintegral stem 62,and j saidstenihas-'slidingmovement 1n; an-open-;

perhorizon'ta'l;

When the rising section 65 of the cam is in will orce the said blockupward, so that its it; but as soon as this section 65 of the ciilnklothe cam F to leave the locking-block 60 just prior to the next onagement .of the cam E tachment with said arm being usually effectand atproper intervals through the medium fruit, the combination with a frame,a driveof the cams C, E, and F and their coacting partsas, for example,if the cutter has just cored and sliced the fruit upon one platform. 54,just the cutter connnenoes to rise through the action of the cam C thecam F releases the locking-block 60, causing said block to drop awayfrom the table, and almost immedi.atel the cam E operates upon the starwheel to revolve the table D the dis tance between one of the arms,bringing anothe platform beneath the cutter. The cam E then ceases toact upon the star-wheel, and the cam F commences to act on thelocking-block to force the stem of the said block to a lockingengagement with the platform just placed in position, at which time thecam G will have caused the cutter B to descend and core and slice thefruit beneath it.

As heretofore stated, the table 1 is of spider-like construction, so asto permit the slices of truit to drop down through the spaces in thetable, where the fruit received into a canvas chute 72, for example. andconducted by said chute to any desired receptacle. 'lhis chute is heldin position by attachment to a ring-frame 66, which surrounds the tablel),

as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the said ringframe being provided withclamping mem bers 67 for attachment to the lower portion of the post 16,and just above the ring-frame 66 where it connects with the post 16 adellecting board 73 is preferably secured to said post to prevent theslices passing oil at the rear of the machine. compelling the slices todrop into the chute 72. The conical shape of the cutter where the bladesare located cffectually prevent the slices remaining on the cutter, astheir teni'lcncv is to l; ll therefrom, and if by any chance a sliceshould stick it is quickly dislodged at the. next downward movement ofthe. cutter.

Havingthus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secureb v Letters Patent 1. In a machine for slicing and coring fruit,the-combination with a frame, a post mounted to slide on the said post,of a table mounted. to revolve in the frame adjacent to the post, thesaid table consisting of av hub, arms radiating from the said hub,platforms at the ends of the said arms, said platforms being providedwith projections on their upper faces, a cutter and corer located in thesaid carrier, means for intermittently moving said carrier toward andfrom the platform,

and means connected with said movingmeans for partially rotating thetable during the intermissions of tbemovemen-t of the carrjer, and aconnection between the line-shaft and the drive-shaft for periodicalmoving the line-shaft.

2. In a machine for slicing and coring the ends of the said arms, whichplatforms. are provided with projections, a cutter and corer located inthe said carrier and adapted to slide to and from aplatform of thetable, an oval cam provided with a corresponding race, mounted on thesaid drive-shaft, an elliptical cam likewise mounted on the drive-shaftand provided with a friction-roller at its point, a link pivotallyconnected with the carrier and with the frame, an arm pivoted to thelink, extcn ding in direction of the drive-shaft and provided with ahead having a friction-r0ller which enters the race of the oval cam, aconnecting-rod attached to the head of the latter arm and to the saidlink, a gear connection between the line-shaft and the said table,

whereby to revolve the same, and a star-' wheel secured upon the saidline-shaft, the teeth whereof correspond in number to the number of thearms of the said table, the roller of the elliptical cam being adaptedto periodically enter the spaces between the teeth of the starovlreel,the two cams having timed. movement relative to each other.

3. In a machine for slicing and coring" fruit, the combination with aframe, a driveshaft mounted therein, a line-shaft located above thedrive-shaft, a post extending from the upper portion of the frame, aspider-like table mounted to revolve in the upper por tion of the frameadjacent to the post, the arms of the spider-like table terminating in aplatform, a driving connection between the line-shaft and. the saidtable, and a combined cutter and corer having a support mounted forsliding and guided movement on the said. post to and from a platform ofthe said table, of an oval cam mounted on the said driveshaft, havinga'correspondinglv-shapedv reextending up from said frame, and a carrierccss in one of its faces, a link pivoted to the frame and having pivotalconnection with the support for the cutter, a connecting-rod pivoted tothe link, a pivoted guide for the lower end of the said connecting--rod,a roller on the said guide, which travels in the race of the said cam.an elliptical .cam likewise mounted on the said drive-shaft, providedwith a roller at its point, a star-wheel secured. on the line-shaft, theteeth whereof correspond in number to the arms of the table, the rollerof said elliptical cam being adapted to [wriodi ally enter the spacesbetween the teeth of the star-wheel, a spring-controlled lockingblockhaving sliding movement on the lineshaft and provided with a stem havingguided movement in the irame and adapted for YOO IIO

locking engagement with the platferm of the names to this specificetionin the presence of said table, and a cam secured on-the said twpsubscribing Witnesses.

drive-shaft, havin periodical lifting-action on the said locking bloekto carry its' stern in v' locking engagement with 'a platform of the 5table, all of the said cams having timed Witnesses: movement withrelation to each other. JOHN ,F. KOHLER,

In testimony whereof We have signed our ARTHQRG. BUTLER.

